The nation that has the schools has the future.
OTTO VON BISMARCKThe great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.
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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
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Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
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A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
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